The virus isn’t going away. That’s why campuses need to reopen. Read on the Washington Post. – 8/19/2020 Op-ed by President Joseph Aoun on higher education during the COVID-19 pandemic. View all articles.

More than a third of American respondents told Fairleigh Dickinson University pollsters in late May they would not get vaccinated, and a poll from researchers at Harvard, Northeastern University, Northwestern University and Rutgers University that was conducted in mid-July found Republicans were least likely to express interest in getting a vaccine. 

Northeastern University has gone all in on in-person instruction. Long famed for promoting work experience, it is now trumpeting another specialty: an on-campus lab to process 5,000 Covid-19 tests a day.

A similar survey, conducted by researchers at Harvard University, Northeastern University, Northwestern University and Rutgers University, found 66 percent of Americans saying that would be somewhat or extremely likely to vaccinate themselves. This poll surveyed 19,058 U.S. adults from July 10 to July 26.

Nada Sanders, professor of supply chain management at Northeastern University, says that without a national, authoritative body to oversee all the moving parts, every stage of the U.S. testing system, including the testing sites, the labs and the manufacturers, will continue to be overwhelmed.

“You don’t have large crowds of people gathering together— you don’t have concerts, you don’t have crowded restaurants, you don’t have crowded churches. You don’t certainly have schools open until now,” said James Alan Fox, professor of Criminology, Law and Public Policy at Northeastern University and author of the 2019 book, Extreme Killing: Understanding Serial […]

A recent Northeastern University paper (PDF) reports that a surgical mask sealed to the wearer with a band cut from a pair of nylon stockings went from blocking out 50% to 75% of small particles (less than 0.3 micron) to blocking 90%.  “The fit was already good,” said study co-author Loretta Fernandez, an associate professor of civil […]